http://www.nospintalk.com/content/view/97/1/

If anyone has any questions about using linux or trying it out, where to get it or how to replace software with alternatives, this would be the place to ask. There are so many resources available it would be impossible to list them all here, as well as being impossible to know what software you may already have with your version.

I recommend ubuntu in the article because it has automatic installers for most software and updates automatically as well. You can find that at http://www.ubuntu.com